Time Travel Card Game & Martian
Chess Set Win Major Awards

COLLEGE PARK, MD-Looney Labs has been awarded three major industry
awards in the past month, a tremendous step in making a name for
the small but growing game company.

Just last week, Looney Labs received the Best Abstract Board
Game of 2000 award for their flagship game, Icehouse:
The Martian Chess Set, and the Best Traditional Card Game of 2000
award for Chrononauts:
The Card Game of Time Travel. These were presented at the Origins
Awards ceremony, at the Origins International Game Expo and Fair.
The Origins Awards are a 27-year tradition of the Academy of Adventure
Gaming Arts & Design. Each year, nominees are selected by
the Academy membership, and voted on by the gaming public and
the Academy.

Looney Labs also recently won the Parent's Choice Spring 2001
Silver Honor in the category of "games for children 11 and
up," for their time travel card game, Chrononauts. The Parents'
Choice Silver Honors are presented semi-annually to excellent
products that are designed to entertain and help children develop
universally ethical attitudes, and rigorous standards and skills.
Parents' Choice is the country's oldest and most respected nonprofit
guide to children's media, offering hundreds of on-line reviews
and resources for parents, teachers, grandparents, and others.

Regarding why these awards are so important to Looney Labs,
Kristin Looney, the company's Business Czar, says " The two
Origins awards give Looney Labs a level of name recognition within
the adventure game industry which we have never had before. The
Parent's Choice award, on the other hand, gives us recognition
within the educational and other more mainstream markets. It's
very cool to have official organizations telling us what our fans
have been telling us for years... Looney Labs makes really great
games!"

Founded in 1996, Looney Labs is a small game company. Operating
out of Kristin and Andy Looney's eccentric suburban home, dubbed
Wunderland, the company publishes innovative, attractive, fun
family parlor games including Fluxx, Aquarius, Chrononauts, and
the Icehouse set. As an internet-based company, Looney Labs uses
secure e-commerce software to market and distribute their products,
and they host an enormous website, updated each week with company
news and original literary content, at Wunderland.com.